The Sun. — London, England, 1836-04-18 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. da The King gave a gran d di nner at W i n d sor Castle, on Satur _y; to the Knight s G ran d C rosses of the Most Honourable aill_tary Order o f t h e B ath. ee'roirin Knights on thi s occas i on a pp eare d i n t h e i r respective the O rde r wearing the collar of the Or der. The O ffi cers of rder also wore their chains and bad ges . The Knights were received at the principal entrance to the wa_t.; . a e st ice, le, and were ushered into St. George's Hall, from at a qu arter to eight o ' clock, his Majesty, preceded by the L or d S teward, and followed by their Royal Highnesses . Duke of his Serene Cumbe r l an d an d P r i nce G eorge of Cambridge, Highness Prince E rnes t, an d t h e ot h er K n i ghts wT:trid Crosses, &c., p rocee d e d to t h e Waterloo Chamber, e the banquet was given ; the bands of the Royal Regi ment of Horse Guards and of the Scots Fusileer Guards Playing " God s ave t h e Ki ng, " as the Sovereign and the Knights pass e d to dinner. The chamber was brilliantly illu minated,_ and the table was splendidly ornamented with gold war silver plat e . T he regimental colours of one regiment Were e grouped behi n d t h e Ki ng ' s seat, and those of the other ere placed on the opposite side of the room. MThe Kni g h ts G rand Crosses of the Order present were Field arshal his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, Prince E rnest of H esse Philippsthall, Admiral Lord De Saumarez, General Lord Howclen, Field-Martial the Duke of Welling ton, Sir G eorge Hilaro Barlow, Bart., General Lord Viscount iseresford, General Lord Hill, the Right Hon. Lord Cowley, General the Hon. Sir Edward Paget, Lord Stuart de Rothsay, Lieut.-General the Marquis of Londonderry, General the Mar 9,,nis of A ng l esey, General Sir William Henry Clinton, Lieut.- e.! i neral th e H on. Sir Charles Colville, Lieut.-General the Right Hon. Sir James Kempt, General Sir Gordon Drum- Lieut- General Sir George Townsend Walker, Bart., Lord Ilaytesbu r y , Li eut.-General Lord Howard of E ffingham, W G eneral th e E arl of Rosslyn, the Right Hon. Sir Charles agst, Ad m i ral Sir George Martin, the Right Hon. Sir Ed- Thornton, Admiral Sir Harry Neale, Bart., Lieut-Ge lieral Sir J o h n O swald, the Right Hon, Sir Freerick James Lamb, the Right Right Hon. Sir Stratford Canning, Admi ral Sir Thomas Byam Martin, Admiral Sir James Hawkins i lr i S ) Vhltshed, B art., Admiral Sir Philip Charles Henderson. h ant, Lieut.-General Sir William Houstoun, Lieut.- Ge neral Sir Edward Barnes, Lieut.-General Lord Strafford, Ad miral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, General Sir Ronald Crawford Fergusson, Admiral Sir Thomas Williams, Lieut.- Ge neral the Hon. Sir Wm. Lumley, Lieut.-General Sir James Willoughby Gordon, Bart., Rear-Admiral Sir Thos. Master man Hardy, Bart. Lord Viscount Palmerston, Admiral Sir Davidge Gould, Vice-Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, Lieut.- General Sir George Anson, Lieut.-General Sir Thos. Dallas, Lieut.-General Sir Herbert Taylor, the Earl of Minto, Admi ral Sir John Wells, Lieut.-General Sir William Henry Pringle Admi ra l L or d A me li ns B eauc l er k, an d Vi ce -Ad m i ra l Sir Graham Moore. The Officers of the Order present were—W. Aston Blount, Esq,, Genealogist ; Algernon Greville, Esq., Bath King of • W'm "' o r als • • Captain M. S eymour , R. N., R eg i s t rar an d Sec re t ar y ; Woods, K. H. (Cl arenceux . Ki ng o f Arms), Deputy Secretary ; Geo. F. Beltz, Esq., K.H., Gentleman Usher ; and Mr. Pulman. Prince George, of Cambridge, K. G. ; Prince Edward of Carolath, G. C. H. ; the Lord Chamberlain, K. P. ; and the following Knights Grand Crosses of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order were also present, and wore the Collar of the Guelphic,,, Ord er over t h e i r un if orm. Th e L or d S tewar d, the M aster of th e H orse , E ar l H owe, E ar l o f D en bi g h, E ar l b nl nr°w9lo w, Lord Maryborough, Viscount Falkland, Lord Fre derick Fitzclarence, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord De Lisle, Right Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley, Sir R. Hussey Vivian, Bart., Sir A n d rew B arnar d, Si r Ed war d W. C . R . O wen, Si r Wheatl e y, Sir B. Stephenson, Sir C. Rowley, and Sir • F, Seymour. The following had also the honour of being invited—the master of th e B uc k H oun d s , Vi scoun t A s hb roo k, H on . M r . Ashley, the Treasurer of the Housohold, the Comptroller of the Household, Sir C. E. Nugent, the Adjutant-General, IC' C. 1 3. ; Sir John Gore, Sir John Elley, K. C. B. ; Sir W. Kier Grant, Sir Charles Thornton, Honourable Captain Cur -1.3n, Rev. J. IL Wood, Colonel Hill, Colonel Mercer, Cap tain Seymour, the Canon in Residence, Mr. Shiffner, Mr. Davies, the Field Officers of'the Scots Fusileer Guards, and 44 the Royal Horse Guard, the Officers of the Castle Guard and of the Inner Door, and the Field Officers of the Bth Hussars. Several toasts, alluding to the Order of the Bath, were Funk in the course of the evening, and salutes were fired by the Royal Artillery from the terrace of the Castle. The R oya l an d Ill ustr i ous party a f terwar d s a dj ourne d to S t. George's Hall, where they were received by the Queen, at tended by the Ladies of her Household. The Duchess of Kent, and the Princess Victoria, and their yes terday Highnesses' Household, attended Divine Service yes ; the Archdeacon Potts officiated. I heLandgravine of Hesse Homburg arrived in town at half -past three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, from Windsor CastleZ. : the Princess Augusta received her Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland's residence in St. James's Palace. The Duke of Cumberland left town on Saturday, on a visit to les Majesty at Windsor Castle. • The Duchess of Kent honoured the performances at the trig's Theatre, on Saturday evening, with her presence. The Duchess of Gloucester entertained the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg (attended by Mademoiselle Styne), and a seloct party at dinner, on Saturday, at Gloucester House. The Princess Augusta joined her Royal sisters in the evening. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office on Sa turday afternoon, which was attended by all the Cabinet Mi nisters. The Council sat upwards of two hours. Lord Pal taerston at:cerwards left town for Windsor Castle. A deputat;en from the North American Land Company, including Sir Coghill Coghill and Mr. Henchy, transacted business at the Colonial Office, on Saturday. The Bavarian Minister and the Marquis de Barbacena, on a special mission from the Brazils, transacted business at the Poreign Office, on Saturday. Time Commander of the Forces had an interview on Satur day w ith Viscount Melbourne, in Downing-street. cre. Friday Desp etches from Canada were brought to the Colonial O ffi ce, A ' night. meetiog of the Trustees of the British Museum was held a Saturday. • Lord John Russell had a dinner party on Saturday evening, It' Wilton -crescent. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had a dinner party at his teeidence at Dulwich, on Saturday. WINDSOR-SUNDAY. . At the grand banquet given by the King yesterday evening, t t r i t:ost or the Knights of the Bath were present, together with HOURryal visitor and the principal members of the Suite and hold. 9 WE Dinner was served up in the Waterloo Gallery, where covers .re laid for upwards of 80 persons. T .he Band o f t h e R oya l H orse G uar d s was i n atten d ance 'log the dinner, and in the evening the company muwer.e.m lam ' erred by the performances of her Majesty's chamber stans. I• lls Majesty attended Divine Service at the private Chapel Castl e this morning. The Rev. Isaac Gosset officiated. e nd h e Quee n , atten d e d b y E ar l s H owe an d D en bi g h, E ar l Q " Counte ss B rown l ow, an d L a d y B e di ng fi e ld , went to S t. ( t e e 'l.go'S Chapel. The Rev. Mr. Canning, Canon in officiated, and preached from St. Luke, chap. viii., • ' s e • Grieve's anthem, " Like as the hart," was well sung. e Tine afternoon the King drove as far as Virginia Water, ac irtpanied by L a d y F a lkl an d. C ached h to e Queenthe C didastl not go beyond the immediate grounds at e. -LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEE TINGS. Mo ' 41 3 Prom Fraser's Literar Chnicle. AY ...... L on d on Medical Societ y 8, p. ro m . Phrenological Society, 8, .p.m. Statistical Society, 8, p.m. . Society, 1, p.m. Linnan Society, 8, p.m. ~Pg nli Civil E n gi n eers, 8, p.m. st.iiis.y..Soeiety of Arts, 8 p. m. I'4 Ark , London Institution, 8, p m. pki, DAL:v....R oya l S oc i ety, h a lf- past 8, p . m . S k - ""•• • —..hoy a l I nst i tut i on, 9, p . m . 'Tan a. - y.....So c i e t y o f A nt i quar i es (anniversary), 1, p.m. Westminster Medical Society, 8, p.m Physical Society, 8, p.m. United Service Museum, 3, p.m. la, st irh e C onntess D'Orsay arrived in town on Friday at th e British Hotel, from Tunbridge Wells. beEarl o f Ri pon has taken a v i lla at N orwoo d r bee WP ascllsm• The Countess and family are now at Tun -I),The T.3ries affect to account for the absence. of the g 4rt r of Wellington from their grand festival in Covent a wa el? Theatre, on Wednesday, by stating that he was kept t,it 1 14 I:_by attendance on public business ; the fact being, withh t h e rac, eat the time was pleasantly enjoying himself lances in another place—in a Pert." n box at the French di T. ,SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.—The anniversarya t der of tile Scottish Hospital was celebrated on Saturdaynott toit:reernasn as' Tavern. A highly-respectable, though °ma_ %l oa. ouroe.rous a company as usual, sat down on the t y 4 , The Marluis of Tweeddale presided, and was supported Earl of Rosebery, Admiral Sir C. Adam, Professor Capi n the ROM W. Fraser, of Saltoun, Sir James Eyre, gterhatta•in *Taggart, Sm. &c. The evening passed off in kid ha ' T nonY, several excellent speeches were delivered, 1 , 444 essr s. Wilson , Templeton, Hawkins, B roa dh urs t, Fitz bitx,lll, ar,d Chapman, exerted their v oca l p owers w i t h grea t lk es „ Miss Shirreff and Mr. Wilson sang " Ye banks and don .a duct in exquisite style. His Majesty sent his to jenonat:on of 100 guineas, her Majesty 50 guineas, and the i a a r of _Kent 50 guineas. The total subscription amounted "'-it's PARCEL STOLEN.--A robbery was ttra,ntd ztt Kendal on Saturday last, which is serious as re lit, r the amount. It appears that, owing to the absence of 3, re amount. gnarl, another, person a stranger, was substituted. , 1 4 ) e tn el l as sent by the coach from the Whiteliaven Branch "Meri n ; ''' ir e ada, containing notes to the amount of 3001. On 'ho -I "entull. the guard says that a person got up behind, 'lira if he had not a parcel for the Bank, of which ‘ lB a cl erk? Up on t hi s .h e gave it hi m . Th e passengers, 0 4s lw ev e, declar e t h at they saw no such person, and the guard taken into custody ; but as no case could be brought home I nt he has been set at liberty. t il h l)ett i l _ l silire a rise in rents on good breadths of er 3 has "en place, compared with that of last year, of fully cent. In eain in the highest condition, wtrie ,ne m a y be essimat e d at 16 per cent. ; while in inferior ts a small shortcoming has been experienced. THE KING'S THEATRE. Bellini's Norma was performed here on Saturday night, fur the first time since it was introduced to our stage in 1833, by Pasta, for whom it had been expressly composed. Notwith standing that this opera has been spoken of slightingly by critics, who affect the severer school of music, it must be al lowed that, when well supported, it fairly vindicates its claim to be considered a work of much pathos and power. When Pasta was here last, she was supported in Norma by Don zelli's Pollio, the Adalgisa of Madame de Merle, and V. Galli in Oroveso. Instead of Donzelli we had on Saturday night Winter, a change in every way for the worse. Winter's sing ing is certainly pleasing per se—it always tells in concerted pieces, but his action is the most seriously ludicrous thing pos sible. For Galli we had Lablache, as great an improvement as the other was the contrary. Lablache's personation of the Druid was quite a beau ideal—a sculptor might have modelled from his head all that may be conceived abstractedly grand in sacerdotal expression. For Madame de Merle we had a young Italian lady, Madlle Assandri, who had her first ap pearance on this occasion. Madlle. Assandri is very young and very pretty. Her voice, a remarkably delicate mez zo so prano, is weak, but nicely cultivated, and she sings with taste and expression, subdued by the diffidence of inexperience. She evidently feels well what she sings. Grisi's Norma was quite beautiful—quite equal to anything that she has hitherto done, and a still further proof to what she has already given that she is most worthy to follow in the footsteps of her great predecessor. Her sing,int, from first to last, seemed quite perfect. The delicious little duet with Adalgisa, " Si, fino ore," was rapturously encored. The opera went off with great Mat with a house crowded to excess. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. A drama was performed for the first time on Saturday night, with the title of Don Juan of Austria, and it is professedly a translation from the French, we understood, by Mrs. Charles Gore. The original is by Delavigne, and is written in that popular author's best manner, which our English adapter has successfully imitated in some parts of her version ; but in others, her style presents a direct contrast. We have seldom heard a piece more unequal in its composition—now and then in blank verse, and here and there in prose—the language sovaetimes too grandiloquent and inflated, and at others too mean and poverty stricken. We conclude that the translation was a work of haste in order to outstrip competitors, for the question in many of these cases is, who shall be successful in getting a drama ac cepted, by being the first to thrust it, however crude its condi tion, into the hands of the manager of a London theatre. There are, we apprehend, various symptoms of female composi tion in the version of Saturday night. Near the opening of the drama occur constant repetitions of " lady-love," with semi sentimental accompaniments of the same sort ; but when the heroine is known by most of the parties to be a Jewess, the mode of address is naturally changed. There is, besides, some affectation of the old style of dramatic writing,. for if they introduce two or three such phrases as " It likes me not," and " I care not, I," and such words as, "methinks," " perchance," " moreover," and " anon," not a few of our mo dern writers for the stage fancy they have caught every trick of Messinger, if not of Shakspeare. If Mrs. C. Gore be not entitled to the " mothership" (a word used in the drama) of Don Juan of Austria, we have to apologise for imputing it to her : we know her to be an extremely clever woman, capable of doing much better, had she allowed herself time even for reading over her rapidly-scribbled and hastily dispatched manuscript. We should then have had no ground to find fault with the turgid elevation of some passages, and the mawkish flatness of others. s The story is extremely in teresting, allowingf or certain improbabilities—such as that the Emperor Charles V., after his retirement to St. Just, should keep a boy about him (that is, a girl in boy's clothes) whom he makes privy not only to all his own secrets, but to those of other people, and whose advice he implicitly follows ; and that King Philip H. of Spain and his half-brother Don Juan should be in love with the same lady, and she a Jewess. This Jewess, whose assumed name is Florinda, but whose real name is Leah Sandoval, is the heroine, and she is at least the sixth " Hebrew maid" who has filled a prominent part in French dramas within the last four or five years, and three of them have been introduced upon our own stage. The plot, in a compressed form, may be thus narrated : It is an historical fact that Charles V. had a base-born son called Don Juan d'Autriche, and after the Emperor has aban doned his throne, and it has been assumed by his legitimate offspring, Philip IL, the latter agrees to recognise his half brother, if he will take the habit of a monk and reside for the rest of his life in a monastery. Don Juan is placed, for preparation, under an old knight, named Quexada, but the young man deceives his guardian and instructor, and pays his addresses (which are accepted) to a 'very pretty lady residing in the neighbourhood called Florinda. The main incident of the first act is the avowal by Florinda that she is the Jewess Leah, the daughter of Sandoval, who had been on one occa sion of essential service to Charles V. Nevertheless, this pre sents no insuperable obstacle in the eyes of Don Juan. Philip H. arrives in Andalusia (where the scene is laid) under the title of Count di Ory, to observe the conduct and proceedings of Don Juan, and soon discovers that the young man's taste is for " wine, women, war, and the woods." Each boasts his "lady-love" the fairest (for Philip admits that he is a victim to the passion), and a sort of waver is laid between him and Don Juan on the point. They soon afterwards unexpectedly meet at Florinda's residence, and after a wordy contest of some duration, and a furious struggle, Philip H. sends off his rival, under guard to a monastery, there to be kept close prisoner, while he re mains behind to prosecute his suit to Florinda. Of course she, who is devotedly attached to Don Juan, rejects the King, even when she is made acquainted with his rank. It happens that the monastery to which Don 'Juan is hurried is that of St. Just, where Charles V. was residing, and busying his brains with clock-making. From some expressions dropped by Don Juan, Charles V. becomes aware that he is his son, and pitying his situation, he determines to aid him ifi his flight from this place of confinement. Don Juan escapes, and arrives only just in time to rescue Florinda from the hot embraces of Philip 11. ; for her assertion that she is a Jewess only serves for a moment to check the tide of his furious pas sion. Don Juan now learns for the first time that the Count d'Ory is no other than the King, whose guards being sum moned on the instant, they seize Don Juan and Florinda. The latter is handed over to the Inquisition to be dealt with as a Jewess, and in the lost scene she is led in prepared to suffer at the stake. At this juncture Charles V. enters ;he has quitted the monastery (of which he has become Prior) in order to take care that Don Juan is not exposed to the cruel ty ranny of Philip 11. Charles declares in favour of the mar riage of Don Juan and Florinda, but is met by the Grand In quisitor with the information that she is a Jewess, and there fore that the union is utterly impossible. This puts all parties to a nonplus, but Florinda, who cannot live without Don Juan, puts an end to the dilemma by snatching . the dagger_of a soldier, who stands near her, and thus terminates her exist ence and the performance. Don Juan is left to live as well as he can without Florinda. The chief parts were thus distributed : Charles V. by Mr. Pritchard, Don Juan by Mr. Dale, Philip 11. by Mr. Bennett, Dom Quexado by Mr. Tilbury, and Florinda. by Miss H. Faucit. It was a considerable advantage that all the prin cipal performers showed themselves equal to their parts, so that the drama was acted very uniformly. The interest was well sustained, and the story developed with considerable in. genuity, but for this we are indebted to Delavigne, who, we think, is usually happy in this particular. The applause was " unmixed with any base alloy" of disapprobation, although one or two scenes were too protracted : several of the situa tions were so good that even if the piece had been much worse represented they would have gone far to save it. As it is, it is likely to have a successful run. Perhaps the shortest part is that sustained by Miss H. Faucit, who, not withstanding, was so circumstanced as to be the centre of attraction whilst on the stage. There were several morsels delivered by her in a manner which would have done credit to any actress. We noted down the following as most happily spoken " There is no gem in India's costly mines So precious as a tear 1 If shed for joy, How rich the zest it gives to human bliss— If sorrow be the source from whence it flows, How soothing to the sad and broken heart ;...... And when the sinner weeps, with joyful haste Back to its native spring the sacred drop By angel ministers is borne to Heaven." The play was given out for repetition on Monday, with con siderable applause. COMMISSION DE LUNATIC° INQUIRENDO.—A commission was opened in Dublin on Monday, to inquire into the state of mind of the Right Hon. and Rev. Maurice Lord Hartland. The jury, after hearing the evidence of the Surgeon-General, and two of his Lordship's domestics, were unanimously of opinion that he was of unsound mind, and in capable of managing his own affairs ; that he became so on the 15th of February, 1830. The father of the present baron had three sons, two of whom are dead since 1819. The estimated property of his Lordship is 6,0001. a-year, clear income—the jointure of Lady Hartland 300/. a-year. Her Ladyship was Miss Hume, and was married in 1813, and has had no issue. The petitioner is Major Denis Mahon. Up to the Ist of April the British Legion in Spain had lost forty officers, and upwards of seven hundred men, principally from sickness. A sailor of the name of Barnet Burns, who has lived eight years in Now Zealand, and who was partly com pelled and partly found it convenient to be most perfectly and beautifully tattooed, intends on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday evenings next, to give a lecture or discourse, at the Old Town Hall, on the important use which might be made of these islands to the advantage of this country, together with a detail of the condition and habits of the New Zealanders.—Ports mouth Paper. AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—A duel took place on Saturday between C— R and F— H— N Esqrs. There is " a lady in the case." Mr. R. gave Mr. N. some offence, who demanded satisfaction. An apology was offered, but refused. Mutual friends having been appointed, the par ties met near Harwich, in Essex. Mr. N. first discharged his pistol in the air, and Mr. R. fired in a simil ar ma d ner. Ano ther hostile meeting. being contemplated, both .gentlemen have been bound over in 1,000/. each to keep the peace. A FEMALE SAVAGE.—Yesterday morning the following savage and revolting act took place in the New road. A man named Spencer, residing in Phillip's-buildings, Somers-town, chanced to have an altercation with Sarah Sta pleton, a woman with whom he had for some time cohabited, when the latter in a most violent rage, seized his right ear with her teeth, and having bit more than half of it off, t h rew it way ; it was subsequently picked up in the a re a of a house nearathand, by Sergeant Cooper, of the S divi sion , who narrowly escaped having his thumb bitten off by the fury, on her road to the station-house in Phoenix-street, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING, Newmarket, Sunday Afternoon. The following horses, engaged in the course of the ensuing Meeting, are in training here : • THREE-YEARS-OLD. Lord Exeter's f. by Sultan, out of Dulcinea Lord Chesterfield's filly by Emilius, out of Rowton's dain Mr. Osbaldeston's f. by Velocipede, dam Fickle, by Smolensko Mr. Houldsworth's ch. f. Destiny, sister to Despot Mr. Osbaldeston's f. by Velocipede, out of Streamlet Mr. Grant's b. c. by Emilius, out of Seamew Mr. F. Caldecott's b. f. Zingaro Lord Lichfield's Elis Lord Jersey's Brother to Nell Gwynne Lord Jersey's Brother to Mahomet Lord Jersey's Brother to Riddlesworth Lord Chesterfield's c. by Zinganee, out of Babel Lord Chesterfield's c. Weighton Mr. Thornhill's c. Eric, by Emilius, out of Shoveler Mr. Osbaldeston's f. by Humphrey Clinker, out of Pousette Mr. Osbaldeston's c. Ebberston, by Velocipede Sir M. Wood's ch. c. Tournament Lord Lichfield's c. The Captain, by Zinganee Lord Lichfield's 2Ethiopian, by Memnon, out of Agalia Duke of Portland's c. by The Colonel—Thebes Mr. Scott's ch. c. Gladiator, by Partisan, out of Pauline Lord Exeter's b. c. Muezzin, brother to Beiram Lord Berner's ch. c. by Lamplighter, out of Camarine's dam Duke of Grafton's c. Calmuck Mr. Houldsworth's b. c. Centurion, by Emilius Lord Albemarle's br. c. slulberry Mr. Ridsdale's b. c. Vandenhoff Mr. J. Robinson's ch. c. Whaley Mr. J. Day's c. The Shah Mr. W. Chifney's The Athenian Lord Tavistock's f. by Royal Oak, out of Leeway Mr. E. Peel's Post Haste Colonel Peel's The Professor, by Zinganee Lord Chesterfield's f. by Emilius, out of Katherina, by Woful Mr. Greville's Marmalade Sir M. Wood's ch. f. by Bustard Sir M. Wood's b. f. by Bustard, out of Flatterer's dam Lord Exeter's b. f. Toga Lord Tavistock's f. sister to Oak Apple Mr. Cooke's ch. f. Tertia, by Emilius Colonel Peel's f. by Emilius, out of Garcia Colonel Peel's Zenana Mr. Houldsworth's ch. f. by Vanish, out of Fortuna Lord Albemarle's br. f. by Velocipede, out of Lunatic Mr. Ridsdale's b. f. Volant, by Velocipede Mr. Ridsdale's b. f. Olinda, by the Colonel Mr. Chifney's sister to Marcus Duke of Portland's c. by Brutandorf, out of Souvenir Mr. Batson's b. c. Taishteer Mr. Greville's b. c. Martello Lord Berner's b. c. by Lamplighter, out of Spinning Jenny Lord Tavistock's c. by Royal Oak, out of Aurora Mr. Houldsworth's ch. c. Vathek - Mr. Henry is a subscriber, but did not name. FOUR-TEARS-OLD AND UPWARDS. Mr. J. H. Peel's Uncle Tohy Mr. Sowerby's Rioter Sir M. Wood's Amesbury Lord Lichfield's Ascot Mr. Ridsdale's Coriolanus Mr. Ettwall's Revenge Lord Chesterfield's Hornsea Mr. Mostyn's Birdlime Mr. Cookes's Sheet Anchor Lord Warwick's Pelops Mr. Sowerby's Bodice Mr. S. Stanley's Tiber Lord Verulam s Perrot Lord Exeter's ch. c. Aurelius Mr. Ridsdale's Luck's All The principal betting races of the week are the Portland Handi cap, 2,000 guineas, 1,000 guineas, and the Newmarket Stakes. In the former the following are expected to run :—The Rioter, Sheet Anchor, Revenge, Pelops, Tiber, Hornsea, and Birdlime. For the 2,0(X) guineas—Brother to Nell Gwynne ( winner of the Monday's Riddlesworth), Muezzin (winner of the Tuesday's Riddlesworth), Calmuck, Whaley, and two or three others. It is said that Eb berston will not start, and doubts are expressed about Elis. The 1,000 Guinea Stake appears to rest between Toga, Marmalade (who met in the 500 sovs. match last meeting), Destiny, and Zenana ; but the race to-morrow, in which Toga and Destiny are engaged, will probably shorten the field. The 300 Sovs. Stakes on Thursday is reduced into a very narrow compass, only Aurelius, Perrot, and Luck's All, being here. The former is the favourite. The start for the Newmarket Stakes will be governed by the running for the 2,000 Guineas Stakes. No change in the betting. The weather has latterly been more favourable, and the ground is now in good order for running. The following are the fixtures for to-morrow : Fifty Pounds; for four yrs old, 7st. 21b ; five, Bst. 31b ; six and aged, Bst. 91b. Last three miles of B. C. Duke of Grafton's Ulick, 5 yrs Mr. E. Peel's Uncle Toby, 6 yrs Lord Chesterfield's Glaucus, 6 yrs Mr. Forth's Famine, 5 yrs Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for three yrs old an I up wards. T. Y. C. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for three years old ; colts Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 41b. T. Y. C. The winner to be sold for 200 sovs., &e. Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft., for three years-old filli es , Bst. 41b. D. M. Duke of Beaufort's Esmeralda Lord Exeter's f. by Sultan, out of Dulcinea Lord Chesterfield's c. by Emilius, out of Rowton's d. Lord Jersey's Odessa, sister to Ishmael Mr. Osbaldeston's f. by Velocipede Mr. Houldsworth's ch. f. Destiny, by Sultan Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. TALK Mr. J. H. Peel's Uncle Toby, by Cain, 6 yrs, Bst Mr. Sowerby's Rioter, 5 yrs, ist. 61b Sir M. Wood's Amesbury, aged, 7st. llb Lord Jersey's Nell Gwynne, 5 yrs. 6st. 111 b Match, 300, h. ft. A.F.—Lord Lichfield's Ascot, Bst. 81b, agst Mr. Ridsdale's Coriolanus, Bst. 21b. . . This match, we understand, will not be run. The Handicaps close this evening in the usual way. Amongst the arrivals are the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, Lord G. Bentinek, Sir J. Shelley, Hon Colonel and Mrs. Anson, Mr. Irby, Mr. and Mrs. C. Wilson, Mr. S. Stanley, Hon. General Grosvenor, &c. The meeting is expected to be fully attended. Lye has arrived to ride Birdlime on Wednesday. BATH SPRING .RACES-THURSDAr. The Durham Park Handicap Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h. it., with a Purse added, for horses of all denominations. Gentlemen riders. One mile and a half and a distance. Captain Whalley na. Bessy Mr. Hobson na. br. g. Harold York Stakes—A Forced Handicap of 5 sovs. each, with 20 a dd e d . Heats, one mile. Mr. Lambden's Ace of Diamonds... 1 0 2 1 Hon. S. Herbert's Burlington Mr. Hughes's Woodman 0 1 0 3 Mr. Houldsworth's Felix 0 2 1 2 The Doddington Park Stakes of N sovs., h. ft., for hprses not thorough-bred ; four yrs old, 9st. ; five, lOst. 91b ; six, 1 Ist. 71b ' • aged, 12st. ; a winner of the Pillerton Tally-Ho, or Billesdon Co low, before the day of starting, to carry 71b ; if any two, or either twice, 101 b. extra. Two mile. Gentlemen riders. Mr. Hobson's Challenger, 4 yrs Mr. Reeve's Rufus BETTING AT CHESTER TR 5 to 1 agst Jupiter—taken 5 to 1 agst Red Royer—taken 7 to 2 agst Billinge 8 to 1 agst Usury 9 to 1 agst Stockport—taken 10 to 1 agst The Stag 10 to 1 agst Tamworth MANCHESTER. ADP: CUP, P.P. 112 to 1 agst Altamont 12 to 1 agst Turban 12 to 1 agst Oswald—talc. freely 15 to 1 agst Jacob Faithful 16 to 1 agst Lady Moore Carew 18 to 1 agst Hectie—taken 20 to 1 agst any other The Hayes Steeple Chase was won by Mr. Bryant's Red Deer (owner), beating Air. Elmore's Young Grimaldi (Bean), Mr. An derson's Albino (Weston), Mr. Tilberry's Presto, Mr. -'s Upas, and Mr. Seffert's Billiard Ball. The race was contested at a very severe pace between the first two, and won by a neck only. The Burton Steeple Chase was won by Mr. Ball's Creeper (owner), beating Mr. Cooper's Pompey, Mr. Flavell's Robin Hood, and Air. Barton's Intriguer. HUNTING IN THE NEW FOREST. We are enabled to give our sporting readers a slight de scription of the week at Lyndhurst, in the New Forest. The sport commenced on Monday with Mr. Wyndham's fox hounds ; they met at Poulton, the seat of Mr. Sloane Stanley, they found at Amberwood, and killed at Ampworth, after three beautiful bursts of twenty minutes : the field was numerous, and the sport highly satisfactory. On Tuesday his Majesty's staghounds met at Bolton's Bench, where a field of sportsmen and others assembled to the number of 2,000, and such a scene in the quiet town of Lyndhurst was not remembered by the oldest inhabitant. A hind was first found and ran severely for 20 minutes, when up got a fine stag, which ran at the best pace for one hour and ten minutes, which made the time occupied in running one hour and a half. The noble animal was safely taken near Beaulie'n, and we under rtand he will be conveyed to the Royal Hunting Establishment at Ascot. The Royal Pack, as usual, were greatly admired, and it must have been most gratifying to the Noble Master to hear the encomiums passed on the hounds by so great a number of scientific gentlemen, among whom there was but one opinion as to the merits of the hounds and severity of the run. On Wednesday the foxhounds met at the Manorhouse, and unfortunately chopped a fox in his kennel. A second, was, however, found, which ran for half an hour, and was lost near Lyndhurst. Some notion of the bustle and excitement in the forest during the week may be conceived when we mention the fol lowing names of gentlemen (masters of hounds) who were on the spot ; viz.—the Earl of Erroll, the Duke of Beaufort, T. A. Smith, Esq., the Hon. Morton, the Hon. G. A. Craven ; Messrs. Villebois, Nicol, Errington, Wyndham, Hor lock, Hall, Taylor, Yeatman, Hankey, Satchell, and Sir John Coped To give the names of whole, or even the majority, of the leading sporting gentlemen who were also present is ut terly impossible, we therefore content ourselves by mentioning that among the number were Lords A. Fitzclarence, Uxbridge, Brudenell, and Alvanley.— Windsor Express. Sir Peregrine Maitland is to proceed to Madras as Commander-in- Chief. The Strand Theatre opens positively on Monday, the 25th. Thd company consists of Messrs. Hammond, Mitchell, Moss, Attwood, Archer, Simpson, Benson, Hill, Cooke, Ranson, Searle, Doyne, Mrs. Nisbctt, Miss Beresford, Miss erguson, Miss Stoker, Mrs. Tayleure, Mrs. Ager, and Mis s Daly. The opening pieces are Jerrold's Schoolfellows Come to Town, and a new burletta by Leman Rede. Painter of Ghent, a serious one-act drama, by Jerrold, and in which he he Strand, plays by Mr the h hero,. Mark Lemon. Mrs. ne e wf o a n. rcetta called P. L., or No. Mrs. Sharpe, who came out a few nights ago at Drury-lane as Lady Macbeth, has been on the stage nearly all her life, and is the daii,ghter of a celebrated mimic and comic performer—Lee Sugg. She married, and went to America, where of late she has been playing inferior parts in comedy, tragedy, and afterpiece. Her sister is married to Racket, who was in this country, and played at the Haymarket, two y e ars ago. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. At this office, --- Crosby was charged with a fraudu lent trick to obtain money. This was a common case ring-dropping. So eager was the prosecutor, a respectahl< looking female, to purchase the jewels so fortunately fowl(' that she pledged her silk cloak to buy them. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1836. BOW-STREET. James Cook, a notorious character, was brought up. Keys, the officer, stated that on his return from Marlbo rough, where he had been endeavouring to discover the in cendiaries—eight wilful and malicious fires having taken place in that neighbourhood recently—he recognized the prisoner with a bag, on the outside of a coach, and on his arrival in town took him in custody, when the bag was found to contain ten skeleton keys, a phosphorus box, a crow-bar, some plate, a coachman's blue coat, a gig cover, and several other articles, and on the prisoner's person three ducks, recently killed.' Keys further stated, that the prisoner is a well known dog-stealer, and was committed, about eighteen months ago, for ten months, on a charge of dog-stealing. The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and was committed for further examination. INCENDIARISM.—Keys subsequently reported to Mr. MINSHULL his success in apprehending a man named Wil liam Alder on a charge of incendiarism. He stated that during the last two months no fewer than eighteen incen diary fires had occurred - in Chiseldon, Wilts, and its neigh bourhood. The prisoner was in the employ of Mr. Brown, of Chiseldon, who had a bean stack destroyed, and the evi dence was such as to induce the Magistrates to commit Alder for trial. Another man, named Coleman, was also in custody, on a charge of setting fire to some stacks, the pro perty of Mr. Baldwin, of Chiseldon. The officer stated he had been greatly assisted in his endeavours to bring the parties to justice by T: Cally, Esq., a Magistrate of Wilts. Mr. MINSHULL said that the officer had done his duty in a praiseworthy m an ne r , an d th a t his conduct deserved high commendation. MARLBORQ UGH-STREET. An inquiry into the origin of the late most destructive fire in Bond-street has been for some time prosecuted, in consequence of certain reports which appeared to favour the impression that the fire had not occurred through accident. It is but fair to the party implicated to say that the evi dence, as far as it at present goes, is exparte, and amounts only to suspicion, and that hitherto Mr. Absalon (who is now in custody) has always Vorne an unimpeachable cha racter. Mr. Absalon having been on Saturday morning taken into custody on a warrant the evidence beneath was taken. Eliza Thomas, servant to Mr. Absalon, then residing at No. 12, Old Bond-street, said—About a quarter before 10 o'clock on Saturday night, the 12th of March, after I had done my work, I went up stairs to turn down the beds. As I passed the shop, I saw my master, his son, and one daughter in it. It is usual for some of the family to remain reading in the shop after it is shut up. I carried up a to bacco-pipe which my master was sometimes in the habit of smoking. I looked into the drawing room on the first floor, occupied by Captain Duplat, who was then out, and I saw only a little fire in the grate. I went up stairs, and I turned the beds down. In about two or three minutes I heard a scream, which I think came from my mistress. I went down to the first floor, and found my master, my mis tress, and some of the family, who appeared to be alarmed as the back bedroom was on fire. I and Miss Sarah went up stairs to draw some water. Miss Sarah took up one pa►l, and while I was drawing another, I was drawing an other, I was called up stairs by some one, and told to go to Colonel Blane's house in Lower Grosvenor -street, and see if Captain Duplat was there. I had previously looked into the bedroom, and I saw the bed curtain on fire, and the floor also burning. I went out as directed, and on learning that neither Captain Duplat nor Colonel Blane were within, I made haste back. I might have been gone a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes. My master had previously told his son to run for the engines. When I got back I• knocked and was let in, but I do not know by whom. I found part of the family in the passage, but I do not recollect who they were. I saw the flames on the stairs, but the stairs were not on fire. I do not know where the flames came from, but I heard the flames blazing and glass breaking. All the family left the house except my master, and went into Mr. Goatley's. Mr. M'Clary, bookseller, No. 32, St. James's-street—l was supping next deor with my relatives on the night of the fire. A little before ten o'clock I smelt fire strongly, and, in going to the back of the house, I perceived smoke and fire issuing from Mr. Absalon's house, apparently out of the first floor window. I went round to the front of Mr. Absalon's house, and knocked at the private door, which was opened by Mr. Absalon, with the chain up. I said, " Do you know, sir, that the back of your house is on fire ?" He said, " I'm afraid it is ; we are trying to put it out." The door was then shut. Mr. Absalon—Do you not recollect knocking a second time, and when I opened the door and solicited you to come in you refused ? Mr. 14'Clary—Nothing of the sort occurred. Mr. 11. Leaking, bookseller, 48, Curzon-street—l was passing down Stafford-street a few minut es b e f ore ten o'clock, when I heard a watchman's rattle in Bond-street. I ran there, and on seeing a quantity of smoke issuing from the chimney of Mr. Absalon's house I knocked loudly at the private door. The door was opened as far as the chain would admit, and I said to 11Ir. Absalon, can I be of any service to you ? The door was shut in my face with out a reply, or at least none that I heard. Soon after this two policemen came up, and one of them knocked and called out open the door immediately, or we'll break it open. Mr. Absalon opened the door, and finding the po lice were there let them in. Thomas Cole, C 79—1 saw a thick smoke coming from Mr. Absalon's house, and before I could get to the door I was called in by some one from Mr. Hawkins's house, the next door. I went through the passage, and then I saw that the back of Mr. Absalon's house was entirely on fire. I went to Mr. Absalon's house and knocked. The door was not opened, but some one from the inside asked if it was the police ? I said " Yes," and the door was then opened. I went in, and saw fire falling down stairs. I saw a pail of water standing in the passage, which I laid hold of, ran up stairs, and threw the water as far as I could. I asked Mr. Absalon to let me begin to remove the property. He ab solutely refused. I asked him if his family were all safe. He said there was no one in the house but me and him. I inquired if he had given the alarm to the police. He an swered he did not think it worth while, as he had sent for the engines an hour ago. A knock came to the door, and a medical gentleman told us to come out, as there was dan ger in remaining any longer. I went out, and Mr. Absalon shut the door, and put up the chain. I knocked again, and when the door was opened, I persuaded Mr. Absalon to come out. Mr. CONANT asked all the policemen to describe Mr. Absalon's appearance. They all declared not the least agi tation was perceptible. James Rooke—l am foreman of the firemen belonging to the County Fire Office. Mr. Absalon is insured in the County to the amount of 1,8001. He has sent in a state ment of his loss, making it between 2,0001. and 3,000/. Mr. Absalon has insured in the County for many years, but not more than twelve months in Bond-street. The value of the stock saved is about 2001. The whole of the stock in the shop was saved. Mr. Absalon said he kept his stock in the shop. The next morning I had some con versation with Mr. Absalon on the subject of the fire. I asked him whether he was under or over insured. He re plied he was over insured about 4001. I replied that people generally under insured, to which he said he had always over insured, and always should. Mr. CONANT should direct that Mr. Absalon be re manded until Wednesday next, when the remaining evi dence would be brought forward. We need scarcely add, that no conclusion to the preju dice of Mr. Absalon should be drawn from this ex park p roc eedinn,--Observer. UiVION .HALL. • THRpt, WEEKS AFTER MARRIAGE.—A man, named Milton, was charged with beating his wife with a broom stick, and kicking her out of doors. Mrs. Milton had been married three weeks. The first week he kicked her out of bed, the next week she took him to a police office, and the third week he beat her with a broomstick and kicked her out of doors. The defendant said his wife was a cursed incarnate, that she had burnt his picture, for which he had paid four gui neas, and that she robbed him. The wife—l don't deny burning his portrait ; but, be fore I did it, he took mine from the side of his own, and with his clenched fist gave the face of my likeness such a thump, that his hand went right through the canvass, and spoiled the countenance altogether. I was vexed at his unkindn ess ; and, when he left the room, I gave him tit for tat, and thrust his ugly mug .into the fire.---(Much laughter.) Magistrate—You are both to blame, and from the speci men of connubial bliss you have commenced with, there is, I am afraid, no prospect of happiness for either. The defendant would make her an allowance--anything to get rid of her. , T he Magistrate th en sugg ested that an attorney might be employed to draw up the deed, and directed that the warrant might stand open against the defendant until the affair was arranged. . A flock of twenty-two ewes, on the form of Mrs. Mary Appleyard, at Brayton, near Selby, has produced this spring no less a ',umber than fifty lambs,—viz.—two ewes had four each, eight had three each, and the remaining twelve had eighteen. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, APRIL IG.—The Pantaloon, 10, Lieut. Corry, arrived on Thursday from Cork, with 2G seamen, entered for general service, and 19 for the Hercules. The latter will be sent round to Chatham in the Emerald tender. The Carron steam-vessel, Lieutenant Dow, brought from the eastward on Monday 70 volunteers, who had entered for ships at Portsmouth and Plymouth. The line-of-battle ships fitting at Sheerness, this port, and Plymouth, are making much quicker progress than was anticipated, and though men enter more readily bath at Plymouth and Sheerness, yet the ships here are picking. up very good crews.' The Bellerophon has only been ten days in commission, and she victuals to-day 351 men, marines included. The Talavera and Hercules, it is understood, will be at Spithead within three weeks. The detachment of Royal Marine Artillery, consisting of two officers (Lieutenants Castieau and Savage), two ser geants, two corporals, two bombardiers, and 4O gunners, destined for the north coast of Spain, e m b ar k e d on Thurs day on board the Carron steam-vessel, Lieutenant Dow, and proceeded immediately to St. Andero ; they were in a splendid state of efficiency and in high spirits, and as an in of the earnest desire of their comrades to be em ployed on the same service, it may be stated that a sergeant, who was not selected for this duty, offered another sergeant 20/. to exchan g e with him. The Carron, after taking thi s detachment to St. Andero will proceed to the West Indies, on which station she is to remain. An order was received yesterday morning to hold in readiness, also for immediate embarkation—it is presumed for a similar service—one captain, one subaltern, two sergeants, one corporal, and fifty privates of this division of Royal Marines, and one subaltern, one sergeant, one corporal, one bombardier, and twelve gunners of the Marine Artillery. The officers who will accompany the former detachment are Captain Gorm ston and Lieutenant Stephens ; Lieutenant Parke will be attached to the latter. They will embark on board a steam-vessel, which is ordered from the eastward for that purpose. The master of the schooner Hope, arrived at Milford Haven from Alexandria ; reports that he spoke his Majesty's ship Melville on the 3d April, in latitude 42 deg. 30 min. N., long. 12 deg. 15 min. W. She had lost a boat and topsail-yard from the chains, and it was feared that the boat might drift on shore on the coast of France, and cause a report of the loss of the ship. The Hyacinth, 18, was at- Madras, Dec. 28 ; Cleopatra, 28, at Rio Janeiro, Jan. 20 ; th e Actaeon, 28, eft the same day for Rio Plata ; the Scout, 16, arr i ve d at Madeira on the 10th March. The Pandora packet, Lieutenant Innes, arrived to-clay from Sheerness, on her way to Falmouth, whither she pro ceeded this afternoon. The Beacon, surveying vessel, was despatched from this port on Tuesday, to the Clyde, to raise s9tunen. In Harbour—Britannia, Vanguard, Bellerophon, Pem broke, Excellent, Royal George, and Pantaloon. At Spithead—None. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenant Thomas Rodney, Eden (late Flag Lieutenant to Sir Thomas 'Wil liams) is promoted to the rank of Commander ; Messrs. J. C. Meheux, Edward Young, and A. St. Clair Booth, to the rank of Lieutenant ; Commander. Henry Drury to the Ordinary at this port, vice Cumby ; Lieut. Hallett (vice Lyall), Mr. F. J. Hawkins, College Volunteer, E. Oades, George Payne, Masters' Assistants ; Messrs. Robert Lam bert and C. 0. Wood, Midshipmen ; Mr. George Thorne, of Castle Cary, Torquay (one of the survivors of Athe nienne's shipwreck, in the Esquerques, in the Mediterra nean, in. 1806), Purser to the Bellerophon ; Mr. E. T. Hinde, Midshipman, to the Excellent ; Lieut. W. J. Wil liams, of Excellent, to Hercules ; Rev. G. Richards, Chap lain, Mr. P. Somerville, Mate ; Mr. G. R. Hamilton, Col lege Volupteer, Vanguard ; Mr. J. Bradley, Midshipman of the Britannia, to the Vestal ; Mr. P. W. Gibson, Mate ;. and Mr. W. Webb, Master's-Assistant, Britannia ; Mr. G. J. Briggs, Master's-Assistant,Ao the Carron, steam-ves sel ; Mr. J. Jervis Carmichael, College Volunteer ; Messrs. Henry Charles Jeffreys, and R. H. Riske, Midshipmen, and Charles J. F. Ewart, Mate, to the Pembroke. ROYAL MARlNES.—Lieutenant and Adjutant Bruton, of the Plymouth Division, to the rank of Captain, vice Capt. C. Scott, of this division, retired on half-pay ; Second Lieu tenant H. Fleming to be First-Lieutenant, vice Brutton ; Lieutenant Hurdle, to be Adjutant of the Plymouth divi sion ; Mr. R. W. B. Rider, son of Cow. Rider, to be Se cond Lieutenant. The following Midshipmen passed for Lieutenants, at, the Naval College, on Tuesday :—Messrs. H. B. Beres ford, Caledonia ; C. Stewart, Snake ; R. A. Powell, Cano pus ; R. L. Curtis, Britannia ; J. R. C. Helpman, G. T. C. Smith, H. B. Everest, A. G. Edye, Beacon ; F. G. Leigh, Excellent ; W. H. Hire, Pembroke ; J. Blackmore, Firefly. Oa Wednesday the sloop Owners Goodwill, Teague mas ter, was brought into Falmouth by the Dove revenue cut ter, having been fallen in with off Porthleaven, in Mounts Bay, with 104 kegs of brandy on board, stowed away amongst a cargo of slate. She cleared out at Plymouth early in March, for Penzance, and bud touched at Roscoff, in France. The crew are prisoners. (From the Dezionport Independent.) PLYMOUTH, APRIL 16.—COURT-MARTIAL.--A Court- Martial assembled yesterday on board his Majesty's ship Royal Adelaide, consisting of the following officers .—Capt. Superintendent Ross, C. 8., Capts. A. R. Sharpe, C. 8., T. B. Sullivan, C. 8., G. T. Falcon, and R. W. G. Festing, to try Mr. Lyons, Gunner of his Majesty's brig Delight, on charges preferred against him by Lieut. John Moore, his Commander, for being drunk on the 12th and 13th of December last, and of general intoxication whilst on the voyage to and from Lisbon. J. E. Elworthy, Esq., Soli citor, appeared for the defence. The Court declared the charges proved in part, and sentenced him to be dismissed the ship and admonished. The Carron steamer arrived yesterday from Woolwich. The Star packet, Lieutenant Christopher Smith, having had her defects made good, was taken out of dock yester day, and warped alongside the Sheer hulk, to have her masts put on board. The Minden, Cornwallis, and Talavera, have their top masts an end : the late stormy weather has been greatly against their being rigged. The Kent, 78, was towed up the harbour to her moor ings on Monday, and the Aretliusa frigate brought down by the Comet steamer, which on Tuesday also towed down the Lavinia frigate. His Majesty i s brig Nautilus, Lieut. Crooke, arrived at Falmouth on Wednesday last from Lisbon, whence she sailed on the 3d instant. She brings no news of import ance. Preparations were making for tho reception of the young King, and every thing was very gay when the pac ket sailed Left at Lisbon his Majesty's ships Hastings, Endymion, Tweed, Cameleon, and Viper ; also the Ameri can frigate Constitution, and schooner Shank. The Nau tilus is appointed to take out the next mail for Lisbon. SHIPS IN THE HARBOUR.—RoyaI Adelaide, 110 ; Corn wallis, 74 ; Minden, 74 ; Talavera, 74 ; Star Packet, and Comet steam vessel. IN Docx.—The Star, 'Wellesley, Druid, Fisgard. ALONG THE JETTIES.—Belisle, Implacable, and Par- tridge. AT THE ISLAND.—Delight packet. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—COM. Picking, Lieuts .T. Lyall, _C._ C. Birkett, H. G_ Hope, R. -J. AbingtOn, H. J. W. S. P. Galway, Mr. Sabben, Master, Mr. G. Thorn, Purser, Mr. Ballineton, Second Master, Mr. 0. Cumberland, Mate, Mr. Patterson, Schoolmaster, Mr. C. G. Rigge, Mate, Dr. W. Garland, Surgeon, Mr. E. K. Nutt, Assistant-Surgeon, to the Bellerophon ; Commander Richard Devonshire, Mr. R. Tucker, School master, Mr. C. F. Turner, Clerk, Talavera ; Commander T. Owen Knox, Lieut. C. F.' Campbell, H. Luster, Mr. Barnes, Clerk to the Minden ; Lieuts. 'l'. G. Forbes and J. Hay, Mr. J. Watson, Acting-Master, Captain Benjamin Bunco, Royal Marines, to the Cornwallis ; Lieut. H. P. Deschamps (supernumerary) and Mr. Osman, Assistant- Surgeon to the Royal Adelaide ; Commanders W. H. Jervis (1834), and C. Keele (1826), to the Coast Guard ; Mr. James Reilly, Schoolmaster, Vanguard ; Mr. John Taylor, Purser, Mr. J. Elliot (Mate of the Ringdove), Mr. G. Lean, Clerk, Captain Pratt, Royal Marines, Hercules, Mr. Woodricke, Assistant-Surgeon, Swift; Lieut. C. Smith, Star packet ; Lieut. T. H. Weller, vice Lyster, W. Howatt, Hon. Le Poor Trench, and Kennedy, Lieuts. Searle and D. Harrington, Royal Marines ; Messrs. W. B. Moneypenny, H. Caldwell, W. Hire, J. A. Riddell, T. A. Alldridge, L. P. Burrill, Mates ; Dr. G. Moxey, Surgeon, Mr. R. D. Mitchell, Assistant-Surgeon, J. H. Boghurst, Clerk, Henry Parker and W. Farrant, Master's Assistants, Mr. D. Rowe, Clerk, W. T. Onion, School master ; James Stopford, Midshipman, Pembroke ; Lieuts. W. Maclean ' Dr. G. King, Surgeon,,pro import; ; Mr. J. Lardner, Assistant-Surgeon, Messrs. R. Clarke, and J. W. Nicholls, Additional Clerks ; Messrs. G. Y. Patter son, R. L. Curtis, G. G. Otway, H. H. Glinn, Mates B. H. Paget, Midshipman, F. Meynell, Volunteer Ist Class : Captain Welchman, and Licuts. Collis and LewirA, Royal Marines, Britannia.— Mr. John Rattery (late Cm wain to Admiral Sir T. Williams), is made Gunner of, the at this port. Lord Henry Russell, son of the Duke of Bcdfortti, who lately passed his examination for Lieutenant, has Itieen. ap— pointed one of the Admiralty mates of the Vanguard ship of the line. H.M. brig, Pantaloon, arrived at the Cove of Cork from Portsmouth, April 7. H.M. sloop Scout, arrived at Madeira, 10th March , on her way to the Cape of Good Hope. BARNSLEY.—The population of this town has in creased wonde r f u lly. It was little more than 10,000 at fere last census. Now it numbers more than 13,000, about coati thousand of whom arc jrish. 1 PARLIAMENTARY --SUMMARY. - - In the Lonns', on Friday, the Marquis of Londonderry again brought forward the subject of Lord J. Hay's order from Santan der, by moving for a copy of the instructions issued by the Admi ralty to that Nobleman. Lord Melbourne resisted the motion, which, after some discussion on our relations with Spain, was withdrawn. On the second reading of the Stafford Disfran chisement Bill being moved, Lord Lyndhurst moved an amend ment for the examination of witnesses, and for the bearing by Counsel of the petitioners, being electors of the borough. The amendment was carried without a division. In the Coatreoss', the Cheltenham and Great Western Rail way Bill was passed. Some discussion took place relative to other Railway Bills. Mr. T. Duncombe named the officer whom he alluded to on the preceding evening, as having p ro _ tracted the punishment inflicted on a man whom he caused to be flogged. It had been said that the man flogged was a per son named - Ingram, a gunner in the artillery. He was sen tenced at Honduras to 200 lashes, and Colonel Arthur, the Governor, went to the place of punishment, and ordered that the man should be flogged in quarter or half minute time, that time being noted by tap of dru m . % ;1 1 r. order P tor a 1 1 o t Stewart the art Registrationpost po ned of i s motion ßirths on Bill il n a s n s d i a the n affairs, ffa i rs, i Dis senters' Marriage Bill to be proceeded with. After a short dis cussion, the Registration of Births, &c., Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday (this day.) After some opposition offered by Mr. Goulburn and Sir R. Inglis, the Dissenters' Marriage Bill was read a second time, and or dered to be committed on Monday. In the course of the dis cussion Sir R. Peel intimated his intention to oppose that part of the Bill which gave persons the right to dispense, if they chose, with the Church ceremony when contracting marriage. The Bishopric of Durham Bill was read a second time. On Mr. Jervis expressing a hope that the Durham University would be open to Dissenters as well as to Church-of-England men, Mr. Trevor said he would in no wise allow the Dis senters to cat the bread of the Establisbment, The Mutiny Bill, the Marine Mutiny Bill, and the Slavery Abolition (Ja raaica) Bill, were read a third time and passed. It was stated fly Mr. C. Wood that there never was a period when men enlisted so readily as they had lately, owing to the induce ments g iven for voluntary enlistment. On the H ouse go i ng into Committee on the Navy Estimates, Mr. Wakley said that when the report was brought up be should move that the '..:stimates be reduced by the sum of 1,0001. a year, the sum :low paid to the Inspector of Marines. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Though the people appreciate the motives by which Lord Melbourne was induced to avoid resisting 'the motion of Lord Lyndhurst for withdrawing the Eng lish Corporation Amendment Bill, which had received the sanction of their Representatives, from public dis cussion, in order to carry on the work of destruction in secret in a Committee up stairs of twelve Tories to ten Reformers, they are not on that account the less indignant at the evidence thus afforded of the humi liating position in which the Peers are determined to place the Government. We can well understand why Lord Melbourne, knowing, as he does, that the great majority of the Peers are opposed to all Liberal mea ,;ures, should, from a natural attachment to his own order, wish, if possible, to prevent their rushing on a course from which there may be no safe retreat, and, at all events, to avoid incurring the responsibility of his having, by any imagined want of courtesy or deference, driven their Lordships into more_violent courses than they might otherwise have pursued. But the people ..,3e in all this another proof that no Government which has the confidence of the nation can have the support of the Peers. It is not a secret that all the Liberal measures which have received the support of a large ma jority of a House of Commons, chosen under a Tory Ainistry, are to be rejected or destroyed. The Duke of Beaufort may not be the most discreet of men ; but he would not have talked, at the Conservative dinner in Covent Garden Theatre, of an expected collision between the Peers and the Commons, had not the meeting at Apsley House determined to provoke that collision. It is known, in fact, that their Lordships have determined to give effect to the scheme of Lord Francis Egerton, which was rejected by a large majo rity of the Commons, for destroying the corporations o Ireland, in order to deprive the people of that country of the protection to local interests which can be derived from local institutions, and to impress on the Catholics in particular, that their religion shall for ever stamp them as unfit to enjoy the privileges which have been bestowed on the inhabitants of England and Scotland. Even the Irish Constabulary Bill, the principle of which received the sanction of Sir Ro bert Peel, is too liberal for their Lordships' taste, and it is also to be mutilated. We will not now allude to the fate of other measures. But we may,, once for all, state that their Lordships being unable to retract their assent to the Reform Bill, seem firmly dztermizied, as far as they have the power, that it shall remain a dead letter, by their rejecting or essen- Lally mutilating every measure for effecting those im provements in our laws and institutions, for the sake of which a reform in the House of Commons was de manded by the nation. Unwilling as the people may be to enter rashly on the bold course of farther organic reform, and little desirable as it may be at this time to disturb, by fresh agitation, th e p rosper i ty t h e na ti o n enjoys under a Ministry in the possession of its confi dence, the course which the Peers have resolved to pursue, must force on the public a conviction that something must be done to rescue the Government from degradation, and to give effect to the Reform Bill. For of what avail is it that Ministers intro duce liberal measures, and that they are patiently and deliberately discussed in the Commons, if the Peers are determined to render the proceedings of the other branch of the Legislature nugatory ? Are the Commons to go, like so many mill-horses, over and over the same ground ? Are their labours to be re gularly brushed away by the besoms of the Peers as if they were so many cobwebs ? The people of England are not fend of pushing speculative re forms too far ; but when the necessity to act is de monstrated by the irresistible evidence of facts, they will not be slow in screwing up their resolution to the sticking place. They became satisfied that so long as the Peers returned a majority of the Com mons, the Government could not be conducted on principles in accordance with the interests of the country, and with one voice they demanded that their representatives should no longer be returned by the Oligarchy. The Lords resisted as long as they safely could ; but at length they were forced to yield to what must always be triumphant, the determination of an united people. The people cicl not want, in the first instance, to carry Reform beyond the occasion ; and although speculative writers had affirmed that an unreformed House of Peers could not act harmoniously with a Re formed House . of Commons, they wished to allow to the Peers a fair trial, in order that if the uoper branch of the Legislature should prove its fitness to legislate for the nation, histo rical associations might be superadded to utility. But the Peers have determined to spurn the people from them, and to afford a demonstration that they possess no feeling in common with their representatives. The consequences may easily be predicted, and cannot be long averted. The collision is not a light matter, whatever Noble Lords may think—it is neither more nor less than a declaration of war against the people of these kingdoms. The people will know how to do themselves justice, and whatever the Lords may think, v.ith whateer illusions th e y m a y feed themselves in the struggle with the nation, they will be but as dust in the balance—as chaff before the wind. The peopl , a are now quiet ; but their eyes are intently fixed on thf.t Peers—and when the demonstration is afforded thrgt th-ir Lordships are incurable, the tranquillity will be sacceeded by a course of action suited to the ein.er ninth: t a n zd eY; to ll .it be before yet. they late, pause , them, either through. jw,t, lest it should be imputed to_ ti .evably, and, most , of all, not to fear to . do what is we t s h h em oul s d ely w e a s r not inclined to yield to conviction ti in what they were wPaleness or wickeelness, that they _yielded to intimida, --Morning Chronicle.; 3 yprobable fixed On fa th te e m il :b it e - I\ lunicipal Reform Bill, that any thin t , ,-, which appears .issoasii to t o m::: li'::ely to zr..s•-T:•st , . The public conjectureinterest I. of Lords is watched with the most eager - it is this feeling which (;...zosity ; directs the creneral b a t e ntion to those dress rehearsals which have beers e , t up at the Duke of Wellington's, to assign their k: :specave parts in the forthcoming drama to the 8 •P --, ~..o p riate performers, but the refraCtory spirit of ecer f) In members of the company have hitherto frustr a teil ~; le laudable efforts ofthe of Apsley Hot Iss manager 1 C has been for some time kno'wn, that t h e more ad \l inturous spirits among the Tory peers had be )me ii tt'a , rly impati en t o f th e controul which the more v vary 1 a 41 calculating heads of their a nti-national fac ;tion (\ ished to impose upon them, and it was in the . hope